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Closed GMs response to hackers
and this is why many hackers seems to never go away, they seem to be giving them just warnings as long as they can respond to them and apparently now with a new hack that simulates replies to whispers even that can be bypassed. This is ridiculous and as someone that has never cheated in this game and seen it for 10+ years and seen them getting away with it, bragging about it and now this, its severely discouraging at the very least. see Reddit link for details
https://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/592roh/quality_work_nexon/
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If Nexon NA banned anyone who has used macros or trainer hack, most people in the top leaderboards would be banned lmao. This is excluding people like Zerobydivide who abused a Bishop party exp exploit, and other 'features' that got patched shortly after. Not to mention all the high funded players in Windia who have bought items off a certain guy who is known for duping items and selling them cheap.
and as much as you try to censor topics like this, it's not remotely effective, far more people go to reddit than come here anymore and its very visible there not to mention believe it or not players actually talk to each other in this game via discord and skype and other social media, there not many secrets left and to Lily, while I appreciate your comment the real gist of this post wasn't the fact hackers have always been here and are here to stay, it was more about how the GMs are now handling this issue, even with all the lip service given to harsher punishments, which obviously wasn't the truth.
It doesn't help your case to complain about being censored. Seriously, that's your excuse? Your thread got moved so now you're "censored"? That's a worse excuse than the guy who claimed he was being censored by Reddit mods because he had gotten 2 downvotes (one of them was from me). "Censorship" my foot, your thread would have received the same amount of attention in either subforum. And if you seriously don't want to accept getting moved (repeat: not locked, still open, no one warned, no posts edited), then try the discussions page, which is the forum's equivalent of /r/all. Seriously, nothing's being hidden here, you really can't use that excuse for this.
Look, complaining about hackers is fine. But name one time "hacker discussion" has ever been civil and I'll ship you a cookie by mail. Unless you want to start up a suggestion about how to combat hackers (captcha, cell phone verification, etc, most of which I'll agree with), I'm going to remind you that your post begins with: "and this is why many hackers seems to never go away". Not exactly a shining beacon of purity, no more than this thread or this thread.
I ain't Slatymate and this ain't Reddit, so if you want to bash on hackers, don't be surprised when your thread gets moved with the other threads bashing hackers.
Bashing on GMs for not banning hackers - frankly, I'm (pleasantly) surprised Neospector didn't lock your thread for FUD.
That, and a thread about hackers(bashing or otherwise) never lasts long before it completely erodes into everyone bitching about pretty much every problem they perceive with the game, and that's simply not constructive in any sense.
This is my official petition to create a new subforum
BestOfNeospectorSmackdowns
Functioning exactly like https://www.reddit.com/r/BestOfAdminSmackdown/ on reddit
this is why many hackers seems to never go away, they seem to be giving them just warnings as long as they can respond to them and apparently now with a new hack that simulates replies to whispers even that can be bypassed. This is ridiculous and as someone that has never cheated in this game and seen it for 10+ years and seen them getting away with it, bragging about it and now this, its severely discouraging at the very least.
well maybe if hacking was allowed so everyone could enjoy the game more and waste less time to begin with since nexon its one of many really greedy and backstabing types just like blizzard but less rich imo~
kappa~{just in case since i get a lot of censorship otherwise}
I haven't had any problems at all since they cannot profit from it there.
Depending on your reasons for not trying reboot in the past- it may be something to consider.
Perhaps the staff at Nexon can take this into account and come up with some sort of "no trades allowed" on suspected hackers for a period of time, deleting items etc. Even if they don't get banned - if the warning carries something other than a slap on the wrist, it might deter them.
Every once in a while Nexon does a sweep, but it's never enough and within a short time all maps are full of hacking bots.
Some do it for their own "fun" (to get 1-250 in a week, for example, or to run a 3-minute dojo), some farm billions of meso and then sell the entire account for real-world $$$. Some only sell boss carries for real $$, and either hack the boss or kill it "legit" using gear made with ill-gotten cubes.
Just because there's no trading doesn't mean there's no black market and no way for cheaters to profit.
Hm, perhaps because I am more of a casual player, I am not seeing it as badly? I usually only ever had problems with hackers in Windia when trying to train. (I am aware of those selling items in the FM though).
I suppose that is where my mind automatically goes - "can I train or will hackers be KSing me on the maps?"
I didn't realize people were selling Reboot accounts, but it doesn't surprise me *sighs*
Thanks for the information!